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The most effective advocacy and community organizing work happens when groups and coalitions know where they stand and can leverage their organizational strengths to work for social change.

This presentation will: Introduce participants to AFJ’s free, online tools, Advocacy Capacity Tool (ACT) and Power Check for community organizing, Describe how they are being used Discussion of evaluation principles.

Using ACT, nonprofits and foundations can benchmark their advocacy skills, identify specific gaps and opportunities in their advocacy strategies, identify areas to build, efficiently focus resources for best results, and evaluate their capacity building progress.

PowerCheck makes it easy for nonprofits, evaluators, and funders toassess their capacity for engaging in community organizing, planning successfully, and tracking capacity building progress over time.

Kimberly O'Neil is an award winning executive leadership and nonprofit expert. As the youngest African American woman to serve as a City Manager in the United States, she is now the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Giving Blueprint, a company with a three point mission to impact social change through the development of strategic partnerships and growth plans within the nonprofit community. As a veteran senior government and... Read More →

Natalie Ossenfort serves as the Director of Alliance for Justice’s Texas office, where she works with nonprofit organizations to increase their advocacy capacity and understanding of federal, state and local advocacy and lobbying rules. Prior to her work with the organization, she helped to create and run the Innocence Project of Texas, a nonprofit dedicated to freeing those wrongfully convicted of crimes in the state. At IPTX, Natalie held... Read More →